exodus
Syllables: Ex·o·dus/ˈɛksədəs/
exodus noun: a sudden departure of a large number of people.
Noun
exodus (plural exoduses or (nonstandard) exodusses or exodus or (hypercorrect) exodi)
- A sudden departure of a large number of people.
- There were no less than three exodi from Egypt. The first was the one just named, viz: the expulsion of two hundred and forty thousand Cuthites by Halisphragmuthosis; this occurred about two hundred years before the entrance of the Israelitish shepherds into Egypt. The second exodus was that of...1839, John Delafield Jr., An Inquiry into the Origin of the Antiquities of America, Cincinnati, Oh.: N. G. Burgess & Co., page 75
- Now if, as we have seen good reason for believing, the documents were composed within forty or fifty years after the leaving of Egypt, it is hard to believe that their authors should have been so confused and so forgetful that they confounded two city-lands so distinct and separate as Goshen and...1909, Olaf A[lfred] Toffteen, The Historic Exodus (Researches in Biblical Archaeology), Chicago, Ill.: The University of Chicago Press, pages 147 (Differences Between P and JED.—The Settlements in...
Verb
exodus (third-person singular simple present exoduses, present participle exodusing, simple past and past participle exodused)
Proper noun capitalized: Exodus
Exodus
- The departure of the Hebrew slaves from Egypt under the leadership of Moses.
- The second of the Books of Moses in the Old Testament of the Bible, the second book in the Torah describing the Exodus.
- Synonyms:
- Exod.
exodus meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
exodus in Hindi
- exodus, exile, forced departure from one's homeland
- हिजरत hijrat
exodus in Tamil
- திரள் வெளியேற்றம், வெளியேற்றம், குடிப்பெயர்ச்சி
exodus in Urdu
- خروج, کوچ
exodus in Bengali
- দলবদ্ধভাবে প্রস্থান, বহির্গমন
More languagesFewer languages
- exodus in Malayalam
- കൂട്ടത്തോടെയുള്ള ഒഴിഞ്ഞുപോക്ക്, കൂട്ടപലായനം, പ്രയാണം
- exodus in Kannada
- ಗುಳೆಹೋಗಿಕೆ, ಗುಳೆ, ಗೂಳೆಯ, ಗೂಳಯ
- exodus in Indonesian
- eksodus
Examples of exodus in a sentence
- Further, rural exodus, especially among young generations who refuse to engage themselves in hard, misremunerated agricultural work, is also a cause of the current crisis.1989, African Study Monographs - Volume 10, page 6:
- The train starts to empty at North Walsham, and then there is an exodus at Cromer.2025 October 15, 'Mystery Shopper', “About Anglia... and high scores”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 54:
Synonyms of exodus
Forms of exodus
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | exoduses |
| plural | exodus |
| plural hypercorrect | exodi |
| plural (nonstandard) | exodusses |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | exoduses |
| present participle | exodusing |
| past participle | exodused |
| past | exodused |
Origin of exodus
From Latin exodus, from Ancient Greek ἔξοδος (éxodos, “expedition, procession, departure”). Doublet of exodos. From late Old English only as a proper noun, Exodus, the biblical book; use as a common noun is from the early 17th century.
Borrowed from Latin Exodus, borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἔξοδος (Éxodos), from ἔξοδος (éxodos, “departure”), from ἐξ- (ex-, “out”) + ὁδός (hodós, “path, road”).
Words formed from exodus
Questions about exodus
- What does exodus mean?
- Exodus means a sudden departure of a large number of people.
- What is exodus in Hindi?
- Exodus in Hindi is हिजरत (hijrat). See Exodus meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use exodus in a sentence?
- Further, rural exodus, especially among young generations who refuse to engage themselves in hard, misremunerated agricultural work, is also a cause of the current crisis.
- What part of speech is exodus?
- Exodus can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce exodus?
- Exodus is pronounced /ˈɛksədəs/.
- What is the plural of exodus?
- The plural of exodus is exoduses.
Words near exodus in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: exodus (page history and authors); Exodus (page history and authors); हिजरत (Hindi) (page history and authors); exodus (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); exodus (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Exodus (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); exodus (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); exodus (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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